Monday, 22 October 2012

Here's my latest comic strip for The Stool Pigeon music paper, issue #40. I have so much fun drawing these.

This strip tackles the yearly dilemma of choosing a killer Hallowe'en costume, and how most people's choices would make a zombie turn in it's oh-so-shallow grave.

I'm thinking about making a 4-up postcard set of all my strips so far this year (Another Easter, No Wonder, Insult & Injury and this latest addition) to sell at Thought Bubble and online. Would you want/buy them?

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

As if November wasn't exciting enough, with the run up to Thought Bubble in Leeds, the British Comic Awards go and announce this year's nominees... and my name is among them!

I am nominated in the 'Emerging Talent' category with four other incredible artists. Woah.

'Nelson' from Blank Slate Books, in which I have a five-page chapter, is up for Best Book too! It was also nominated for an Eisner earlier this year, so big congratulations to Blank Slate and all the other contributing artists.

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Very happy to reveal a new book I've been part of - 'Mythical Creatures' from the Girls Who Draw collective. It contains 24 postcards, by 12 female illustrators all bound together in a wrap-around cover which I designed and illustrated.

Two of the 24 postcards are illustrated by me and both feature characters from slavic folklore. This chap below is one of them - a pond-dwelling water spirit. The text is the Ukrainian translation of his name :"водяник" / "Vodianyk".

It was a real honour to be asked to work on this book... as the 'Menagerie' edition way back in 2009/10 was one of the first books I bought when beginning to self-publish my own zines and comics. Makes me feel like I've come a little way since then.